"Filled with movie-like action, this is one of the most readable stories of our Indian frontier." Library Journal "A sound, well-written, and quick-moving narrative which will meet the needs of both the professional historian and the general reader." California Historical Society Quarterly Along the shores of Tule Lake in northern California, in the fall of 1872 three small bands of Modoc Indians joined forces to hold off more than a thousand United States soldiers and settlers trying to dislodge them from their ancient refuge in the lava beds. In these caves and crevasses, which the army...